]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056601
ChuckyGotchaSun, 27 Jan 2013 19:56:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-10566012.55pm and Rob Ford on AM 1010 is hoping to close down sole-source contracting at the City

Your comments on the Mayor leave you looking like an idiot.

]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056599
EmilyOneSun, 27 Jan 2013 19:33:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056599Go talk to Kinsella….he’s looking for you
]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056597
ChuckyGotchaSun, 27 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056597At the moment it’s 2.00pm Sunday and Rob Ford at am1010 is having a telephone conversation with a large newstand operator about the Newstand contract for the subways.

The contract recently came up for renewal and Byford wanted it put out for tender. Stintz over ruled Byford and sole sourced the existing contract without looking at alternatives. It’s a $50 million contract, the guy on the phone would have bid it 10% less.

Ford is the best mayor the city has ever had and he’s not happy about the TTC walking away from 5 million bucks…

]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056595
ChuckyGotchaSun, 27 Jan 2013 19:10:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056595Noooooooooooo, LOL there’s no one commenting on you because no one would know YOU if they tripped over YOU.

And no one would care to know YOU.

People comment only on your stupid, uninformed, deflective statements.

]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056593
EmilyOneSun, 27 Jan 2013 18:39:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056593I’m commenting on the topic…you are commenting on me. Stop it.
]]>By: bcsenior10http://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056591
bcsenior10Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:33:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056591Maybe you would or could learn something by listening to others. Can’t expect you to do that as you are so sure you have all the answers.
]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056589
EmilyOneSun, 27 Jan 2013 17:18:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056589Don’t you old coots have anything better to do than bore other commenters with your nonsense?
]]>By: bcsenior10http://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056587
bcsenior10Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:07:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056587It sure takes one to know one and you qualify
]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056585
ChuckyGotchaSun, 27 Jan 2013 13:10:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056585You have no idea what anything means. But you could acquaint yourself with what a good guy Rob Ford is by checking this out on Sunday.

]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056583
ChuckyGotchaSun, 27 Jan 2013 13:05:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056583LOL. You know Emily, when you start up like this with Butcher Kitchy it reminds me of the conversations that Norman Bates used to have wih his mother.

]]>By: Hoping for a better 2 yearshttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056581
Hoping for a better 2 yearsSun, 27 Jan 2013 02:10:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056581As part of Rob Ford’s re-set perhaps he could (on a smaller scale of course) follow the example of Mayor Bloomberg of New York and donate generously to th world class University in his city. New York’s mayor has donated hundreds of millions to John Hopkins but if Toronto’s mayor followed suit with hundred’s of thousands (of his own money – not solicited from others using city resources) that would really convince people that he has decided to follow a new course.
]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056579
ChuckyGotchaSun, 27 Jan 2013 01:09:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056579You’re the globalist Emily. Many many folks don’t give a sweet feck about any list conjured up by “globalists.”
]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056577
ChuckyGotchaSun, 27 Jan 2013 01:02:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056577Well I’ve not had any discussions with Parson Manning, son of “Social Credit” Premier Ernest Manning but I have had a few with a fully innebriated Ralph Kline over at the St. Louis Hotel and I can assure you that the fact of these characters being “social” and “progressive” speaks for itself.

The only thing new in the world “kitchy” is the history you don’t know.

Of course, you’re free to argue that U of T and only U of T is THE finest university in the country, and that this is (or at least should be) universally and unambiguously acknowledged, rather than simply accept that it’s ONE OF the finest universities in the country, if you really think that said slight prevarication is just giving too much ground. Personally, I think that’s just being silly though.

]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056571
EmilyOneSun, 27 Jan 2013 00:28:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056571Or perhaps you could just go with the globally accepted list.
]]>By: Lord_Kitcheners_Ownhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056569
Lord_Kitcheners_OwnSun, 27 Jan 2013 00:25:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056569That’s got to be the first time that Preston Manning and Ralph Klein have been called left wing wackos.
]]>By: Lord_Kitcheners_Ownhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056567
Lord_Kitcheners_OwnSun, 27 Jan 2013 00:19:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056567To be fair, McGill was 18th to U of T’s 19th in the QS University Rankings this year, and third behind McGill and UBC in the Macleans rankings, so perhaps “one of the” finest universities in the country would be more accurate, as it is at least a somewhat subjective analysis.
]]>By: Lord_Kitcheners_Ownhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056565
Lord_Kitcheners_OwnSat, 26 Jan 2013 21:41:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056565Yup. There’s the type of reasoned reply to a polite question that I’ve come to expect from ChuckyGotcha.
]]>By: ChuckyGotchahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056563
ChuckyGotchaSat, 26 Jan 2013 21:33:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056563Last Sunday on his weekly radio show Mayor Ford had a lengthy discussion with Graham Henderson of Music Canada about the importance of the Arts and Arts Funding to Toronto. About the large number of good jobs the Arts bring to the City

The week before he spoke similarly with Claire Hopkinson of the Toronto Arts Council.

Until just last fall I, along with everyone else, was bombarded constantly by “morons” like you screaming “hate” about Rob Ford, a very decent fellow taking time out of his busy life to coach a football team made up of young men who don’t have the advantages he was given while growing up.

So, when I heard about his Sunday program on Radio AM 1010 I decided to listen in and that’s when I got the real story about the guy and his vision of what he thinks Toronto should be, and can be, with the many resources it has available to it.

I learned that he’s not a dumb bell, that he is articulate, that he’s knowledgeable and that he’s a damn good radio announcer.

]]>By: Lord_Kitcheners_Ownhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056555
Lord_Kitcheners_OwnSat, 26 Jan 2013 19:08:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056555So, docking his pay $3500 would have been fine, but asking him to write a cheque for $3500 is a juvenile joke?

THERE’s a technicality, lol.

]]>By: Lord_Kitcheners_Ownhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056553
Lord_Kitcheners_OwnSat, 26 Jan 2013 19:06:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056553Now I’m curious. Your list of the best universities in Canada would include…?
]]>By: Lord_Kitcheners_Ownhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056551
Lord_Kitcheners_OwnSat, 26 Jan 2013 19:02:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056551The whole “all he was doing was raising money for charity” bit is a total canard. Politicians soliciting money for their favourite charities from lobbyists and contractors who do business with their government is so obviously wrong that I don’t even know where to start. I’d argue that it’s even WORSE if the charity in question is not only not a registered charity, but is also named after the politician soliciting the donations (as is the case with the “Rob Ford Football Foundation”). Worse still if the fundraising letters are produced by workers who are on the taxpayer’s dime, using publicly purchased supplies.

Imagine for a moment how you’d feel if Barak Obama were found to be soliciting donations to the ACLU, from Halliburton, in letters on “Office of the President United States” letterhead typed up by White House staff? Or if Dalton McGuinty used provincial employees to write letters soliciting donations to his favourite charity on “Office of the Premier” letterhead, mailed to a company lobbying to replace Ornge as the province’s air ambulance provider. I have a hard time believing that you wouldn’t go ballistic. Now imagine how you’d feel if the charity in question was the “Dalton McGuinty Performing Arts Fund”, and it wasn’t a registered charity. Now imagine how it would look in the context of Dalton McGunity having promised during the last election to stop volunteering with his performing arts charity if elected, in order to focus on his job as Premier, yet post-election he was still skipping out on Cabinet meetings to conduct rehearsals of his children’s choir. And what if he had just HAPPENED to hire a former conductor of the TSO to his office staff, and said conductor then started mysteriously appearing at rehearsals of his charity’s concert band? I highly doubt you’d be arguing that there was nothing wrong with McGunity’s laudable work on behalf of underprivileged children.

]]>By: PEIMAChttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056547
PEIMACSat, 26 Jan 2013 17:49:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056547The entertainment value of it possibly. That or to help them get over not having an NHL caliber hockey team.
Seriously though, in general too few follow the details and allow bombast campaigns to sway them.
]]>By: Rick Omenhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056545
Rick OmenSat, 26 Jan 2013 16:11:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056545The whole case was a bloody joke from the beginning. That the Toronto left-wing loons would actually try to oust the mayor because of fund raising for under privileged children says a lot more about them than it does about the mayor. But those same people also probably believe that charities should be outlawed because the government should be doing their work. And these people wonder why Ford gets elected.
]]>By: EmilyOnehttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056543
EmilyOneSat, 26 Jan 2013 15:53:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056543There are no parties at the municipal level.

Toronto is fine financially….they even have a surplus

The problem is crackpot mayors….Ford and Lastman being prime examples.

]]>By: TJCookhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/rob-ford-forever/#comment-1056541
TJCookSat, 26 Jan 2013 15:49:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=341868#comment-1056541Isn’t that funny. On one hand, you claim this court case shouldn’t have happened because Ford broke the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law. On the other hand, when Ford is acquitted on a technicality (ie. the letter of the law), you claim that he’s vindicated.

Also, yesterday Ford proclaimed his faith in the courts. Given fair courts and equally-good representation on both sides, it’s simply not possible to “oust” a politician from office in the absence of wrongdoing. This is perhaps the stupidest talking point in the history of municipal politics.